Chapter 437: Past Events in the Center of the Earth (3): Living to Death

"Later, something terrible happened..."

When speaking of this, Spherical Tunguska put away all emotions except fear.

"A vortex formed in the direction of [City of Peaks]! A large amount of water was sucked into the vortex and disappeared!"

"But apart from the bottom of the waste abyss where the City of Mountains is located, where else can the Great Water go?"

"Before this, the Waste Abyss was the lowest level of the world that humans could reach, but now that the water has disappeared under the Waste Abyss, does that mean... are there other spaces under the Waste Abyss?"

"The people in the Northern Bureau thought it was a treasure, and they wanted to explore it, but the bottom of the water was too dangerous, so they tried every means to build a dam underground when the big snake was not around, blocking most of the water flow."

"After the water flow changed its course, the road to the bottom of the waste abyss, where the City of Peaks is located, was finally opened."

"Although big snakes still appear underground from time to time, as long as you are careful, you will always get the opportunity to go deep underground."

"They sent a new investigation team to go underground, but none of the people who went there came back."

"The space under the Waste Abyss seems to be a place of death with no return. After losing a lot of manpower, they finally stopped exploring the unknown space under the Waste Abyss."

"After stopping the underground investigation, I lost all use value and was shelved."

"After a period of time, the secret stronghold of the Northern Bureau was gradually abandoned, and the laboratory where I was held was gradually abandoned..."

"I escaped...but I had nowhere to go. What's even more sad is that I found changes in myself."

Spherical Tunguska raised his head and glanced at Chen Yan.

"I started to become...a little overwhelmed."

"My movements started to become sluggish and my thinking became sluggish. I...I felt like I was going to die."

"I know that I am going to die. My life span has exceeded the limit that my kind can reach. I am about to reach the end of my life as a Tunguska."

"I almost died."

It smiled lowly.

"That day when I was looking for breakfast, I lost my strength and fell in the garbage. Several rats jumped on me and wanted to do to me what I had done to them."

"I no longer had the strength to resist... I gave up resistance."

"But just when they pounced...just when I was about to die, the voice from back then appeared in my mind again."

"That's the call from the tribe... that's... the call from the [brain ball strain] strain tribe in my body!"

"I don't know what happened at that time, I just know that when I regained consciousness, those mice had become my food."

"Those calls from the tribe gave me strength and saved my life."

"I got up from the chicken bones and fermented dirty water and walked in the direction of the sound."

"I know what I'm about to face may be terrifying, but it can save my life... Ever since I gained wisdom, what I fear most is death."

"I ran away from Mida because I was afraid of death, I ran away into the black pine forest because I was afraid of death, and I ran out of the black pine forest because I was afraid of death and went to Yanan City to eat garbage."

"Because I was afraid of death, I was threatened by people from the Crime Investigation Division of the North Bureau. I helped them do so many stupid things and made so much money for them."

"Because I was afraid of death, after I escaped, I still lived in the garbage dump of Yanan City... You humans like to use this word, right? Especially you Asians."

"That time, I was about to die again, but I didn't want to die. The feeling of living was better than anything else!"

"Because I was afraid of death, I returned to the place where everything started -

That night, I returned to UM, followed the direction of the sound, and dug the underground passage that Wilk and I had dug together.

I followed the passage all the way down until I entered the City of Mountains.

But... the city of mountains in front of me is already in ruins! It's 'dead'!"

When the spherical Tunguska mentioned this, Chen Yan immediately noticed that the City of Overlapping Mountains he had dug up at Mida and the City of Overlapping Mountains dug up by the Crime Investigation Section of the North Bureau should not be the same place!

The voice of desire immediately sounded in Chen Yan’s ears:

‘What happens underground may be completely different from what we imagined. The space rift has created two different cities with overlapping peaks. But how is this possible?

Could it be that in different locations in the universe, there are two civilizations of life forms with the same history, the same technology, and the same basic structure?

This probability is so small... so small that it is almost impossible to happen!'

Spherical Tunguska is still telling:

"Finally, I found what called me."

"In the depths of the ruined abyss, under a collapsed house, I found a gramophone... Don't look at me, it's the same gramophone as in your human society."

"The gramophone didn't make any sound, but I could hear it...its sound went directly to my head."

"I heard it say to me: Marry me and we will breed a new species."

"When I heard this, I wasn't surprised! Haha! I thought I was crazy! I wasn't fucking surprised!"

Spherical Tunguska shed tears while talking.

"It said to me again: Come on, let's complete the wedding ceremony."

"I don't know how all this happened - the moment it was finished, I knew that I should eat it - [eating it] itself is [a wedding ceremony]."

"So, I completed the ritual."

"I...I feel something is happening in my body. I don't know what it is. I just feel that I am different from before."

"I have regained my vitality. The traces of aging have disappeared from my body. I seem to be young again. I feel that I have endless strength..."

It seemed a little incoherent, and it was obvious that today, so many years later, the shock of that incident still seemed to be right in front of its eyes.

"After calming down, I was thinking, what exactly does [reproducing new ethnic groups] mean?"

"I don't feel like I'm infected. When I was young many years ago, I didn't feel the same way I did when I was first infected with the [brain ball strain] many years ago."

"I don't know what happened, I just know that not only did I survive, but I'm still alive and well."

"Just when I was about to leave the underground, a group of uninvited guests came."

Spherical Tunguska's voice carried obvious vigilance, and he obviously couldn't control his emotions well.

"Their conversation went like this:

'This is where they pushed the laboratory down?'

'Yes, this is also the bottom of the waste abyss.'

'It's really interesting. This place and the place we discovered before are actually the same thing in different states.'

‘The professor attributed this situation to [the rift].’

'Huh? In other words, do the things that the [strongest generation] graduates created back then still exist now?'

'kindness.'

'This is what we call the "Strongest Generation". Afterwards, it is not just dead and injured, but the result is good after death. The few who are alive end up with neither human beings nor ghosts. That is really tragic.

'

'What really happened in the laboratory back then?'

'If I knew, there would be no need for us to come here to investigate again.'

'makes sense.'

'Be careful. The [Brain Ball Strain] has been confirmed by the institute to be a type of [Ancient Immortal Strain]. Even if it loses its biological activity, it still has a strong ability to infect carbon-based organisms.'

‘I trust the institute’s protective clothing.’”

The spherical Tunguska paused here and took a sip of the mint soup handed over by Chen Yan.

"Thanks……"

It seems to be completely lost in memories.

"I didn't know what those two people were doing at the time, until they took out something... I didn't know what it was."

"They lit that thing, and it rose into the sky and turned into the sun underground!"

"Everything was illuminated, the ruins of the City of Peaks were exposed to view, and the ruins of the laboratory also appeared not far away. Things originally hidden in the darkness were stimulated and rushed out of the darkness!"

"That's a big—snake!"

The spherical Tunguska draws out an exaggerated long note.

"It's a bigger snake than the one I've seen before! So big! So big!"

It stretched out its short hands and stretched its arms outward, trying to describe the hugeness of the big snake.

"Only after I saw it clearly did I realize that the thing was not a snake, but a... creature I had never seen before!"

The fear in its voice almost overflowed.

"That thing... is scary, ferocious, evil, crazy, and... beautiful! It's perfect!"

"That's an evil beauty I've never seen before! It's... insanely perfect!"

Chen Yan slapped it on its hysterical face and whipped it around for a few times before it finally woke up.
To be continued...